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This time it's not an onion. I love how close this is to the Onion's "Elon Musk's AI turns on him" story from a few days back

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 143 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I feel sorry for satire writers in the last decade or so, it must be genuinely difficult to come up with stuff more bizarre than reality.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 69 points 2 days ago

I…worked on this story for a year…and…he just…he generated it out.

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I feel bad to exist in this timeline with all the "bizarre stuff,"

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago

I now understand how "may you live in interesting times" is such a bad thing.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just feel bad. Just in general. Wake up. Feel bad.

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't drink so much alcohol at night my friend 😉

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 day ago

Ah a fellow day drinker!

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 105 points 2 days ago

The smackdown from his own AI system, ironically, came soon after Musk touted the system to his followers in a tweet reading “Use Grok for answers that are based on up-to-date info!”

Beautiful.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does this mean Musks AI will get sued by Trumps DOJ for using the label “misinformation” per Trumps 1A speech?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do whatever you want, but this kind of thinking will get you nowhere. Especially nowadays.

They don't care about even appearing consistent. It doesn't matter anymore, they won. Now they do what they want.

They always did what they want. Now they do it with impunity and the support of more than half the nation behind them.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And suddenly billionaires are no longer interested in AI.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm waiting for the "AI is democrat communism" talking points

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

"AI is woke."

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (4 children)

So nowadays AI is more intelligent as the usual shareholder and president?

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

CEOs haven't realized they're actually the people that are easiest to replace with AI.

[–] BatrickPateman@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

May sound like a joke to some but there have been studies on this coming to the same conclusion:

https://hbr.org/2024/09/ai-can-mostly-outperform-human-ceos

Same study, but alternate link with more text:

https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2024/new-research-human-vs-ai-ceos/

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hate Elon Musk as much as the next guy - and all the more now that he has this massive conflict of interest working in his favor and at the American public's expense.

But I will say this for the sake of exercizing critical thinking: everybody is happy to say AI hallucinates when what it says doesn't suit their narrative, and call AI intelligent when it does.

[–] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 day ago

Sure, but if you’re trying to make money off of this technology and it openly starts criticizing you, there isn’t really an explanation where you look good.

[–] babybus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

And it is more intelligent than an average voter too.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago
[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Seem like "his" AI isn't that bad after all, eh?

Still wouldn't wanna use it but it's something I guess

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago

"Mirror mirror on the wall, who spreads the most misinformation of all?"

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Et tu, Grok?

[–] dave@feddit.uk 19 points 1 day ago

User Gary Koepnick asked the AI which person spreads the most information on Twitter/X—and the service did not hesitate in pointing a finger at its creator.

(my emphasis) That’s a terrible typo…

[–] teh_shame@infosec.pub 35 points 2 days ago

It didn’t turn on him, it surpassed him

[–] T156@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Got a link to the Onion story? Couldn't seem to find it.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Here's the lemmy post.

It was posted in the Onion community, but the story itself is on isGlitch

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Oh how the turn tables.

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